The Golden Age of Basketball

() The second half of the game was about to start. Gan Guoyang finally put on the simple red vest and stepped on the wooden floor of the gymnasium.

Throughout the summer, Gan Guoyang used up his physical strength on the concrete floor on the streets of Oakland. He never went to a regular basketball court.Now standing on the maple floor again, I still feel strange.

"Hi rookie, you are really good. You made Farmar look like that on the first day. I hope you can have a good time at UCLA." The point guard of the first team walked up to Gan Guoyang and said to him.

"I feel sick when I see his face. Does this guy always have such a constipated expression?" Gan Guoyang spoke without any scruples, but he didn't expect that this is not Palo Alto. There no one will care about anything he says.

The point guard of the first team didn't say anything, just smiled and began to prepare for the game.

Gan Guoyang took the ball and walked to the sideline, ready to serve.

"Beep beep!" With the referee's whistle, the 15-minute game officially started in the second half, and the second team was still 2 points behind the first team.

During the intermission, Gan Guoyang discussed with the teammates of the second team and decided to continue to implement the offensive tactics of the first half at the beginning of the game, relying mainly on outside conduction and jump shots.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang replaced the 6-foot-9 power forward, so that the lineup of the second team is one big and four small, one center with three guards and one small forward.

This lineup configuration will be a mainstream configuration in the 21st century when insiders are scarce, but in the 80s, this is the naked freak.

Gan Guoyang can't control freaks or freaks. At the beginning of the second half, when he didn't have an offensive burden, he began to complete the task of blocking people for the outside line conscientiously.

Regular centers and power forwards block people differently. Gan Guoyang is taller and stronger, and his screen blocking quality is obviously higher.

The point guard of the second team relied on Gan Guoyang's cover to successfully escape the entanglement of the defenders at the top of the arc, and cut inward with the ball. The inside line of the first team had to be raised to defend.

But the second team didn't want to play in at all. The point guard saw that it attracted the defense, and immediately passed the ball back to Gan Guoyang who took a step out.

After Gan Guoyang received the ball, he raised the basketball with one hand and did not make any offensive moves.Obviously he's looking for passing opportunities.

At this time, the shooting guard on the left wing understood, and immediately moved laterally from the outside to go around Gan Guoyang.

The defensive players naturally have to keep an eye on it, because once the shooting guard relies on Gan Guoyang's cover to cut in from the front, then Gan Guoyang can pass a through ball directly to the guard's hands, creating an opportunity for an empty cut layup.

However, when the shooting guard circled Gan Guoyang for half a circle and cut into the three-second zone, Gan Guoyang didn't put the ball in because the players of the first team had already followed up to the inside, blocking the second team's chance to cut. .

But the second team didn't think about going inside at the beginning, and their attention was actually focused on the outside attack.

The defensive contraction of the first team gave the second team an outside opportunity. Just after the point guard of the second team handed the ball to Gan Guoyang, he had already relied on the cover of the small forward, slipped around the baseline to the left, and just filled the shooting guard. Turn to the opening of the main entrance.

In this way, the defense of the left baseline of the first team has been taken away by the shooting guard, forming a large open space. Gan Guoyang is the one who arrives at the ball. After his own point guard reaches the zero-degree angle of the baseline, he immediately passes the ball.

Shoot, hit, equalize!

The fiery feeling of the second team in the first half has not completely cooled down, relying on this open shot to tie the score, 28:28.

"Yes! Well done, you guys are fucking geniuses!" Gan Guoyang shouted, regardless of the ugly faces of a team of old players.

"Grey, give this arrogant guy some color, he thought he was great." The point guard of the first team said to the team's center Gray while dribbling the ball.

"No problem, pass the ball to me later."

Soon, the second team fell into position, and this time they still used the conservative but safest man-to-man defense.

The first team did not use telescopic offensive tactics anymore. Their 7-foot center Gray began to ask for the ball against Gan Guoyang in the low post. He wanted to play directly.

Although Gan Guoyang did not carry out formal tactical training this summer, he never failed to hone his center forward skills.

Playing on the street using the center technique will inevitably be criticized as not good-looking. However, Gan Guoyang can always switch between the center and the guard flexibly, which instead brings some changes to the blind outside singles on the street.

It also made him famous on the streets of Oakland.

Now back to the regular game, Gan Guoyang will face a seven-foot center forward.

Gan Guoyang has already begun to feel some pressure in the boxing confrontation, which he has never experienced in high school competitions, because he has never met a seven-footer in high school competitions.

The 2-inch height difference doesn't seem big, but it's just the length of a finger, but in a basketball game, the length of a finger often determines whether you can avoid a block or score a key goal.

Moreover, the difference in height brings about the difference in weight and body shape. After a summer, Gan Guoyang's weight has grown to 210 pounds.But facing an opponent who is seven feet tall and weighs 220 pounds, he still feels a bit strenuous.

Gray was pressing in front of Gan Guoyang like a big gate, and Gan Guoyang had almost no other way to do other than push forward desperately.

It seems that the positioning skills of university centers are very solid. Gan Guoyang imagines that it will not be so easy to rely on technology to win as before.

Gan Guoyang failed to stop Gray from receiving the ball. The point guard of the first team easily dropped the ball into Gray's hands, and quickly cut in. On the one hand, it took away the defense, and on the other hand, it also posed a certain threat to the second team's defense.

Obviously, Gray didn't think about passing the ball, he just wanted to single out Gan Guoyang, to show this arrogant rookie some color.

Gray dribbled the ball inward twice, and found that the rookie behind him seemed not as easy to deal with as he imagined, because he couldn't stand Gan Guoyang at all.

Although Gan Guoyang was underweight, he used to practice against Thurmond every day, which was no joke.

However, after making some adjustments, Gray still pressed Gan Guoyang to turn over and force himself up. He flicked his right hand in the air and wiped the ball into the basket without anyone interfering.

At 28:30, the first team scored a goal and took the lead again.

"Boy, don't be too arrogant, restrain yourself, remember you are still a rookie." Gray said to Gan Guoyang after scoring the goal.

Gan Guoyang glanced at him and didn't pay much attention, because he knew that he would call back sooner or later.

If it was changed to the previous Gan Guoyang, he would definitely tell Dippenbrook that he would return one if he gave him the ball.

But now, Gan Guoyang is more calm, he understands that the sweetest laugh is the last one.

The second team is still resolutely implementing the effective tactics before, and continues to use the conduction from the outside to find opportunities.

However, the first team also began to make adjustments. Their defensive formation began to expand, and they began to use small-scale pincers to disrupt the smoothness of the second team's outside passes.

This move caught the second team off guard, the smoothness of passing the ball was destroyed, and the ball couldn't be reached by people, so some of the open spaces that ran out like this also lost their meaning.

Seeing that his control of the ball was getting weaker and weaker, and he was almost about to be intercepted, Gan Guoyang knew after barely getting the ball that he could no longer pass it back and forth like this, so he started to attack independently while still at the top of the arc, holding the ball and breaking through !

At this point, the defenders of the first team didn't expect it at all. They didn't expect the 6-foot-10 center to break through.

What they didn't expect was that Gan Guoyang's breakthrough skills were quite good, not like an inside player at all!

I saw him suddenly accelerate at the top of the arc, one step past the power forward who came out to defend, and then before the inside Gray jumped up to block the shot, he jumped directly on the edge of the three-second zone and flew into the air.

Before Gray even had time to take off, Gan Guoyang had already made a layup, and his body had already started to fall.

30:30, the two sides drew again!

"How about it, I didn't dunk on your head, I have restrained a lot." Gan Guoyang said to Gray with a cute face, as if scoring a layup like this would not be arrogant.

"If you can dunk on my head, I'll buy you a box lunch." Gray was obviously not as good-tempered as Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang made a provocative sentence, but he immediately shot back.

In the team, the general newcomers have to buy this and that for the old players, just like handymen.It is generally a fixed old rule for newcomers to buy food after training.

"Then I'm here to thank you in advance." Gan Guoyang naturally wouldn't show mercy.

But on the basketball court, the best way to fight back is to perform well on the court.

Gray obviously had a riveting relationship with Gan Guoyang. When he came to the offense, he once again asked for a position on the left waist, stretching out his long arms to ask his teammates for the ball.

Naturally, the other players on both sides would not be disappointed in this kind of confrontation on the court. The point guard of the first team directly threw the ball to Gray, while the defenders of the second team did not bother to attack, and put the two on the inside. .

Gray's offensive skills are quite monotonous, still the same three tricks, position, push inward with force, turn around and make a layup.

Gan Guoyang tried his best to hold the door panel in front of him, making it more uncomfortable for him to make moves, and at the same time stretched out his long arms to interfere with his shooting sight.

Sure enough, Gray was interfered by Gan Guoyang with all his strength, turned over and made a layup, and the ball hit the basket's neck.

But Gan Guoyang didn't pay attention to protecting the backboard because he had been defending with all his strength. As a result, Gray shot and grabbed the offensive rebound directly under the basket and put the ball in easily.

"Fuck!" Now Gan Guoyang was really annoyed, he had already defended, but he lost the rebound.

In fact, Gan Guoyang's single defense technology should be said to be very immature.

In the high school game, the insiders he encountered were either shorter than him, lighter than him, or lacked skills or strength.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang's defensive pressure comes more from blocking the outside line and supplementing the inside line. In terms of one-on-one defense, he lacks special training and rarely has opportunities to exercise in games.

The entire state of California has produced the most NBA players in history, but the most famous here are their guards.

The powerful opponents Gan Guoyang encountered in the California League were also those famous defenders, such as Gary Payton, Kevin Johnson, and Reggie Miller.

In the future, California will also have outstanding backcourt players such as Russell Westbrook, Baron Davis, and Jason Kidd, and their inside line, only the white center can really make a difference The Last Glory Bill Walton, and the future Kevin Love.

In this case, Gan Guoyang suddenly encountered a 7-foot college center, and it was naturally difficult for him to deal with it.

Gan Guoyang adjusted his mentality, served the ball from the baseline, and continued to concentrate on attacking.

He knew losing his temper would only make things worse if he didn't turn it into motivation.

Since the first team has changed its defensive strategy, the second team's offense can no longer be as smooth as in the first half.

More importantly, what really supported the second team in chasing points all the way in the first half was their sudden fiery touch. God couldn't stop the touch when it came, and it was worse than a pig without the touch.

"Boom!" Knight relied on Gan Guoyang's pick-and-roll to get a chance, but missed the shot.The shooting percentage of the second team began to decline.

Fortunately, because the first team's defensive expansion is relatively wide, and the inside manpower is insufficient, Knight's ball bounced farther, so the small forward of the second team got the offensive rebound, and the second team was able to reorganize the offense.

At this time, Gan Guoyang cut from the top of the arc to the waist, but he didn't back the basket to ask for the position, but faced the basket to ask for the ball.

The small forward of the second team passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and Gray immediately stepped forward to defend.

Gan Guoyang is good at hitting the back basket, but his front basket is not bad, especially when playing on the street. His one-step breakthrough to the front basket and the emergency stop jump shot after dribbling are extremely lethal weapons.

But in the face of Gray, he did not force a breakthrough, nor did he make a direct jump shot.

Gan Guoyang's palm is huge, and it can be said that it is extremely easy to catch the ball with one hand, but he is holding the basketball with his right hand, and suddenly sends his hand forward and puts it behind Gray's head!

Gray was taken aback, thinking that Gan Guoyang had passed the ball to the inside, and hurriedly turned around to make up defense or grab a rebound, but when he turned around, he found that the basket was empty.

When he turned his head to look at Gan Guoyang again, Gan Guoyang had already pulled up to shoot, "Boom", the ball hit the board directly into the frame.The two teams drew again.

This is basically a common action on the street, fake pass behind the head, and then shoot directly after the opponent's attention is distracted. This is what Gan Guoyang learned on the streets of Oakland.

Now, Gray can be said to be a little furious, he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to use such a method to tease him!

Gray, who was already upset with Gan Guoyang in his heart, was played like this, and then saw Gan Guoyang running back as if nothing had happened. As a senior, he could no longer control his emotions and rushed directly to Gan Guoyang!

Gan Guoyang was still running back to defend, but suddenly he felt the wind in the back of his head, as if someone was rushing towards him!

He lowered his head subconsciously, but a fist brushed his scalp and swung it. It was Gray, and he punched Gan Guoyang from behind.

Fortunately, Gan Guoyang reacted quickly, otherwise he would have been dizzy for a long time if he was punched by a 7-footer.

Gan Guoyang also reacted all of a sudden, and the fire in his heart also flared up, but he was teased by Xiao Xiao, and he was about to hit someone.

This is a basketball game. As long as there is no foul, no matter what kind of provocation you receive, the best way is to respond in a basketball way.

Even if you want to fight, it's not a big deal if you fight from the front. It's not like Gan Guoyang has never fought with each other on the street.

But throwing punches from behind seems a bit "dirty".

Gan Guoyang was not easy to bully either. Seeing that Gray was attacking from behind, he lowered his head to dodge the attack, and hugged Gray directly from below.

With a tripping rope under his feet, he exerted all his strength again, and directly knocked Gray to the ground!

"Beep beep beep beep!" The referee blew a hasty whistle.

Now the game couldn't go on, and the court was in a mess. People on both sides came to fight each other, trying to separate the two people who were entangled on the ground.

Farmar's face was even more ugly. He didn't expect that a team training match would turn out like this.

"Stop it, stop it!" Farmar rushed up and shouted, while Gan Guoyang and Gray were already wrestling on the floor.

Finally, dragged by their teammates, the two separated from each other and stood up from the floor.

Gray's basketball jersey had been ripped out of shape, while Gan Guoyang's red vest had been torn off, and his hair was messed up.

The two gasped heavily and stared at each other. If no one stopped them, they would probably fight another [-] rounds.

"Suspension and suspension! Both of you are suspended! Don't even think about participating in the warm-up match!" Farmar yelled angrily to suspend the two, but now that school has just started, there is no game to play.

In this way, the first team training game ended in this way. Gan Guoyang fought with the old players on the first day of joining the team, and he could not escape the reputation of "stab head".